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Doctor Who isn’t on tonight — it’s the Fourth of July, and Sci Fi is airing a Twilight Zone marathon. (Because, really, what says patriotism like gremlins on a plane, evil children and To Serve Man?)

But the Who season is winding down, and when it returns next week there will only be three episodes left (or four, depending on how Sci Fi decides to handle the 65-minute finale, the ominously-titled “Journey’s End” which airs in the U.K. tomorrow night).

If you’re new to the phenomenon, you might want to check out Wired online’s Cliffs Notes treatment for Doctor Who virgins.

Either way, have a great Fourth, and follow the jump to enjoy some spoiler-rific images from the end of the current season of Doctor Who (if you dare):

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Always the wanderer, the last surviving Time Lord known as the Doctor (David Tennant, above with Kylie Minogue) has traveled through time and space for hundreds of years, battling alien warmongers and showing us the wonders of the universe in his trusty TARDIS — a ship stuck in the disguise of a British police call box.

Yes, it’s crazy. And yes, it’s confusing. But that’s all part of the fun.

Doctor Who is now in its fourth season since its rebirth, airing 9 p.m. Fridays on the Sci Fi Channel. (The original series ran from 1963-89, and its loony legacy is very much a part of the new show.) At the season’s halfway point, there are ominous hints of a long-awaited reunion and a bitter showdown in the Doctor’s near future.

Spoilers after the jump!

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Here’s a roundup of the sci-fi offerings on TV Friday (5/9):

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The Doctor (David Tennant) takes Donna (comedian Catherine Tate) on her first excursion to the future and runs into some old acquaintances: the tentacle-faced Ood, who are still willing slaves to humanity. But for how long? The episode “Planet of the Ood” airs 9 p.m. on Sci Fi. It’s a sequel to Series Two’s two-parter “The Impossible Planet-The Satan Pit.” (more…)

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British sci-fi sensation Doctor Who returns to our shores tonight, and for the season premiere — the annual Christmas special — the plucky Time Lord is joined by British pop sensation Kylie Minogue aboard a doomed spaceship christened Titanic. It all begins at 8:30 on SCI FI, right after its spinoff series The Sarah Jane Adventures at 8:00. (more…)

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Journalist. Investigator. Adventurer. Feminist. And so much more.

Sarah Jane Smith is a character Elizabeth Sladen has played since 1973, when she first appeared in an episode of Doctor Who — a British sci-fi series that was already 10 years old and is still going strong today after a relaunch in 2005. She spent four seasons on the original Doctor Who, starred in a pilot episode for a spinoff that didn’t pan out and in her own series of full-cast audio dramas on CD.

Now she’s the main character in a TV series of her own, The Sarah Jane Adventures, which premieres 7:30 p.m. Friday (April 11) on SCI FI. (The fourth season of Doctor Who begins airing the same night a week later.) (more…)